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CogDog The Blog

An early 90s builder of web stuff and blogging Alan Levine barks at CogDogBlog.com on web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), photography, bending WordPress, and serendipity in the infinite internet river. He thinks it's weird to write about himself in the third person. And he is 100% into the Fediverse (or tells himself so) Tooting as @cogdog@cosocial.ca

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Dominoe’s Day on Flickr

Thanks to Martin Weller, I was tipped off to today’s flickr blog theme as being D is for Dalmatian. Of course, given my favorite of favorite lost/found/lost/found dogs, I had to take a peek. Interestingly, I spotted 53212 photos found by searching on “dalmatian” sorted by interestingness (well I did not actually count, I used […]

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Making Bread is Like Making Bread

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog There is something… metaphorical…. about making bread. We are rich in quotations about it A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished –The Talmud quotes Think about it. You can just go out and buy mass produce, processed stuff– cc licensed […]

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The Two Last Men

With some irony, during one of my longer flights recently, I watched two different old classics about men being the last living things. I’d previously seen the more modern version I am Legend with Will Smith, but had read that it pales next to the original it was based on, Vincent Price’s Last Man on […]

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Captions Gone Bad

or When Looking Back Really Makes You Cringe or Alan does not know crap about art. In my recent presentation on Looking Through The Lens I spent a little time riffing on Errol Morris’ New York Times column Liar Liar Pants on Fire. Morris leads us down the path to show that the question of […]

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ds106 ds106

I found the official ds106 restaurant in Austin- another one for the Illustrate 106 assignment cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog And am thinking we need a version of this for the theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1p1dM3snQ ds106 ds106, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said ds106 ds106, oh baby Me gotta […]

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I Have a Hat for Yahoo

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I know zero about business, but in some alternate universe where I was teaching a course in business practices, there is an entire syllabus full of materials from Yahoo on how not to be successful. Look at their portfolio of successes with acquisitions, as painfully […]

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Ambient Sounds Story

This is a slight twist on the ds106 Sound Effects Story assignment– a short story done with only audio effects. Rather than use ones from a library, I mixed together a set of voice-less sounds I made or got from my surroundings. The story first.. http://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/audio/the-keys.mp3 All of the sounds were recorded on my iPhone […]